Tra từ beginning - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

be·gin·ning [beginning beginnings] BrE [bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ] NAmE [bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ] noun
1. countable, usually singular ~ (of sth) the time when sth starts; the first part of an event, a story, etc
• We're going to Japan at the beginning of July.
• She's been working there since the beginning of last summer.
•We missed the beginning of the movie.
•Let's start again from the beginning.
•The birth of their first child marked the beginning of a new era in their married life.
•I've read the whole book from beginning to end and still can't understand it. At the beginning (of) is used for the time and place when something begins. In the beginning = at first and suggests a contrast with a later situation.
2. beginningsplural the first or early ideas, signs or stages of sth
•Did democracy have its beginnings in ancient Greece?
•He built up his multimillion-pound music business from small beginnings.
Idiom: ↑beginning of the end

Thesaurus:
beginning noun
1. usually sing.
•the beginning of July/the movie
start • • opening • • birth • |formal outset • • onset • |literary dawn • |(in football)kick-off •
Opp: end, Opp: ending
at the beginning/start/opening/outset/onset/birth/dawn (of sth)
in the beginning
from the (very) beginning/start/outset
Beginning or start? Compare:
•We missed the beginning of the movie (= the first few scenes).
• We'll miss the start of the game (= the moment when it starts; the kick-off).
• from start to finish
• from beginning to end
✗ from start to end
• ✗ from beginning to finish
:
•the beginning/start of the day/week/year/century/a new era
• at the beginning of July/summer /the 90s
✗ at the start of July/summer/the 90s:
•I want to make an early start
✗ I want to make an early beginning.
2. beginnings pl.
•From these small beginnings it grew into the vast company we know today.
origin/origins • • source • • root • • starting point •
Opp: end, Opp: ending
have its beginnings/origin/source/roots in sth
from these/this beginnings/source/starting point

Example Bank:
•From these small beginnings it grew into the vast company we know today.
•I disliked her from the very beginning.
•I'm paid at the beginning of each month.
•In the beginning I found the course very difficult.
•It was an auspicious beginning to his long career.
•She spoke of a new beginning for the nation.
•Tell me the whole story, right from the beginning.
•That day was the beginning of the end of our friendship.
•The play was nonsense from beginning to end.
•The society had its early beginnings in discussion groups.
•These changes are just the beginning: much more is to come.
•This invention marked the beginning of the modern age.
•a custom that traces its beginnings to the 15th century
•I've read the whole book from beginning to end.
•Let's start again from the beginning.
•She's been working there since the beginning of last summer.
•We're going to Japan at the beginning of July.
•the beginning/start of the day/week/year/century/a new era